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Cool idea! The string matching seems a bit brittle on the names I tried -- "Beatles" turns up no results, but "The Beatles" works. Same goes for "Rolling Stones"/"The Rolling Stones".

Raising prices would reduce the volume of customers, so the restaurant could maintain its quality standard, but Stanich felt his mission was to give back to the local community of regular diners. He didn't want to price out regular, repeat customers from the neighborhood and have only tourists eating there.

Link to the Science Magazine article cited: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/greenland-shark-may-...

Apparently the researchers collected dead Greenland sharks accidentally caught in fishing nets, and examined their eye lenses for traces of C-14 from 1950's nuclear tests. Any shark with none must have been born after 1963. This allowed them to estimate how fast the sharks grow in their first ~= 50 years of life. They also applied other radioisotope dating methods (not fully explained), in addition to an extrapolated "growth curve", to estimate the biggest shark caught had been 390+-120 years old.

For anyone who'd like to try out NetLogo without installing it, you can run example models and play with the code online in NetLogo Web: https://www.netlogoweb.org/launch#https://www.netlogoweb.org...

There are several good points in the speech that many of today's companies could benefit from: Help the best employees grow so they don't leave and take your organizational memory with them; build processes for long-term success instead of optimizing short-term financial metrics; let managers "go and see" the details of the problems that rank-and-file workers are having; favor leaders who are expert in the field over professional managers.

Your method (3) is a great way to study, and it's very similar to the "Feynman Technique": https://mattyford.com/blog/2014/1/23/the-feynman-technique-m...

The Feynman Technique is basically alternating between writing a description of a concept on paper from memory, and looking up whatever you couldn't remember.

I read a few Head First books when I was first learning to program (Java, SQL, and Design Patterns), and I know what you mean about the books trying too hard to be funny, with lots of silly stock photos, word search puzzles, and the like.

Even so, Head First Java in particular is a good introduction to object-oriented programming for someone with no prior background in it. I feel like any beginner who can look past the silliness of the Head First style could learn efficiently from this series. I wouldn't use a Head First book now, but they are good for people without much background to build on who want an easy learning curve.

The article seems light on explaining the reasoning behind the law. Its proponents clearly want to increase the average female-male ratio on corporate boards. But that doesn't mean that a few boards being nearly all-male is necessarily bad. There must be a better, less blunt way to encourage companies to open more board seats up to women.

Your interpretation seems about right. But why does Ray suppose there are 4 time points a day, instead of any other number?

Maybe he's correct that "no writer or speaker understands the Time Cube."

It seems like they're doing something similar to how Reddit's "hot" algorithm reportedly works. As of 2015, that was supposedly like:

log(upVotes - downVotes) - (hoursOld / 12.5),

according to https://medium.com/hacking-and-gonzo/how-reddit-ranking-algo....

Fair Trending basically differs just in the log() part, substituting (fractionUpVotes * views) for (upVotes - downVotes). This could change the ranking if a lot of people view without voting either way.

They do, however, provide derived features of the audio, as well as code for downloading associated audio from 7digital: https://github.com/tbertinmahieux/MSongsDB/tree/master/Tasks...